[300] Three years was theoretically the minimum; Mun. Acad. 391: the extension of the period to four years must be of later date; Clark, Reg. Vol. II, Pt. II, p. 139. An instance of the later custom is found in 1507; Reg. G. 6, fol. 22 b.
[301] Reg. G. 6, fol. 168 b, 187 b.
[302] Ibid. fol. 160, 187 b.
[303] Ibid. fol. 22 b.
[304] Registers, passim: cf. Clark, Register, Vol. II, Pt. I, 142 seq., for the later customs.
[305] Mun. Acad. 379, 396.
[306] Ibid. 374, 377, 380, 450.
[307] Ibid. 432, 433. The phrase ‘tenere vesperias’ (cf. ibid. 429) perhaps refers to the Master who presided, ‘celebrare vesperias,’ to the incepting Bachelor. Vesperies might be held in any faculty on any day which was a dies legibilis among the artists; Mun. Acad. 433. Anstey (Ibid.) and Lyte (213) are mistaken in thinking that this only applied to the Faculty of Arts.
[308] Collectanea, II, 217, 222-3.
[309] Mun. Acad. 393; Collectanea, ibid.